Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da is one of the tracks from the White Album which I would define as being simply one of the most upbeat tracks throughout the entire record and one of the most cheerful sounding Beatles’ tracks which I’ve ever heard. Right from this description I would be assuming …

Bunkhouse Theme is a song by Bob Dylan which appears on the soundtrack for the film Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid. One thing I should mention is that the track is an instrumental which certainly isn’t a style of songwriting that is associated with Bob Dylan, although I’d …

In 1998, a lone musician was featured on the soundtrack for the movie “Good Will Hunting”. Several songs were featured by this artist in the movie, including the ending theme, “Miss Misery”. That artist was Elliott Smith.
Elliott was known for his depression and drug abuse, and that melancholy reflected …

A Song Dedicated To The Memory Of Stormy The Rabbit is a song by Andrew Jackson Jihad which appears on their album People That Can Eat People Are The Luckiest People. What I will say immediately about this track is that although I think the songwriting is just brilliant, …

Out Of Time is a song by The Rolling Stones which appears on their album Metamorphosis. I’m aware that the original version of this song appears on the album Aftermath but I will be focusing on the version which appears on Metamorphosis which is an album filled with either …

Ruled By Secrecy is a song by Muse which appears on their album Absolution. The track starts off very quietly with faint pianos coming into the track gradually along with a simple bass line and Bellamy’s vocal melody at an almost inaudible volume. As the song progresses, both the …

The Rolling Stones are old. Some people say they were far too old to be playing at the Super Bowl a few years back. I say leave them alone. They have earned the right to age, they have put in their time as young people, but their music lives …

The Face of Love CD by Sanctus Real was given to me by a friend. I hadn’t heard of them before, so I was a little unsure as to whether or not I would like this cd. As first listen, I was mildly impressed, but as I listened to …

I’m a person who has tended to gravitate to mostly different kinds of rock and electronic music ever since I was a teenager. However, that does not and has never stopped me from exploring other genres of music and having other favourite artistes from those same genres. Nevertheless, it …

Suicide And Redemption, Metallica’s fourth instrumental of their career and penultimate track on Death Magnetic, is similar to The Unforgiven III in the sense that it has some truly brilliant parts but also some parts which just aren’t so good. I’ll start with my complaints against the track. My …

This is a greatest hits collection of songs from Type O Negative. The album was hastily thrown together and released with a generic album cover, and without the consent of the band, Roadrunner Records had the right to do it, so they did. This collection could be the reason …

The New York Dolls have always been seen as a band with their own agenda and have never been known to bow down to expectations and trends. For a long time they were considered disbanded and i never thought i would bear witness to an all-new album from them. …

Every musician needs the proper equipment. If you happen to be a guitarist, I am sure that you have searched the internet and different stores coming across thousands of different guitars. Every musician has his or her personal preference of guitar brand, but it does’nt hurt to have another …

Demi Lovato is a Disney channel star who got her big break on the Disney movie Camp Rock (and also starred in Barney many years ago). Since then, she has put out two albums. That is a lot of songs for someone so young. She is only 17 years …

You may have heard their pervasive song “Sugar We’re Goin’ Down” or seen its inventive “teen with antlers” video. And recently the follow-up single “Dance, Dance” is hitting the airwaves, with another imaginative video evocative of the troubled teen years. I decided to purchase their CD after …

Ghost is a song by Neutral Milk Hotel which appears on their second release, In The Aeroplane Over The Sea. Opening with a quick acoustic guitar strumming pattern, a fuzzy rhythm soon enters the mix which gives Ghost a slightly heavier feeling and a more interesting rhythm compared to …

On some levels it is probably difficult to admit it, but, looking back at this album, and comparing it to the albums that Radiohead afterwards, this album indeed comes off rather badly. I personally think that this album is quite weak. And it is my mature opinion, which is …

Well, everyone should know the popular song, Tik Tok by Ke$ha or at least heard of it. It was the number 1 on billboard list for nine consecutive weeks. Her upcoming album, Animal was highly anticipated and hit stores on January 5, 2010. I loved the song Tik Tok …

These words by Natasha Bedingfield is about how she is saying these words all are her own not some ones else’s. she just wants to be left alone so she is saying no one else can take away what she wants to say even though they may say …

Lips Of An Angle by Hinder is a song I like because it talks about how a guy still has feelings for this other girl and it goes into details about how this girl gives the guy a phone call and the guys girl does not know it is …

It’s a Sin is one of the best known of all the Pet Shop Boys’ 1980s smash hits, and although it is perhaps not quite as famous now as it was in its heyday, it is still an excellent track that I feel is more than worth a listen. …

Even though I have not been fond of soul and R&B music, I used to like the music of the old R&B and soul group “The Drifters” some years ago. They were actually a music group that released a lot of hits during the period of time from the …

It was my mother who first told me about the R&B music group “Debarge” even though I had heard their music playing sometimes on the radio over the years. I was familiar with a few of their songs, and while I had heard them playing, I just was not …

Overview —“ Highway To Hell, AC/DC’s sixth effort, is my personal favorite record out all of all of their releases, whether with Bon Scott or with Brian Johnson. Unfortunately, this record is the last to feature Bon Scott as AC/DC’s vocalist who unfortunately died the following year and was …

The Dean Boca 12 String Semi-Hollow Body Electric Guitar (wow that’s a long name) is my favorite 12 string guitar, after the Rickenbacker. I ordered it online from Musicians Friend. A lot of 12 strings have a nice sound but lack that classic 60’s quality that is …

P. Diddy ft. Nicole Scherzinger
“Come To Me”
Press Play
Bad Boy Entertainment
It appears that P. Diddy has gone from the Shiny Suit Man to the mannequin in the Bloomingdales department store window. Seriously, he looks like he came out of a Hugo Boss advertisement or something in this music video. “Come …

I first heard the song “Entombment of a Machine” from the American Death Metal band “Job for Cowboy” a couple years ago on an online radio station called “L.A. Metal”. I was still newly into the heavy metal and death metal genre, and even though many fans might scoff …

The Shadows fall band is all hype and I do not know what the big deal with them is. Shadows Falls really has no good songs out there and quit frankly at first they were all metal and than they thought they had talent so they tried to sound …

Ranch Records actually has three locations, one in Salem, one in Bend, and one in McMinville, but I have never been to the other two, so I will concentrate on the Salem, Oregon Ranch.
Ranch is my favorite record store in the whole world. I recently went to San Francisco …

Your Bruise is a song by Death Cab For Cutie which appears on their debut record, Something About Airplanes. Opening up with a repeating and simple guitar pattern, the song establishes a pretty brooding atmosphere which the vocals thankfully take advantage of with a vocal delivery that is both …

Toxicity is the title track of a record by System Of A Down. Toxicity starts off in a very melodic way with Malakian’s guitar work which the band comes back to periodically throughout the song, but for the rest of the song, it’s quite an aggressive track. I also …

The song “So what” by the artist Pink is so awesome. I am planning to purchase it from iTunes because it would be a great song to jog. It gives you a slow start but gains intensity throughout the song. The beat is infectious! I can …

Carnival Ride is Carrie Underwood’s latest CD. I think this is a very good Cd. The Cd itself is very colorful.
The important part, the music is very good and is sung with quite a bit of ability.
There is quite a variety of songs. Miss Underwood …

I started to really get into Black Sabbath a couple years ago and went for the set, this set has the first 8 studio albums,in digipak sleeves, Black Sabbath, Paranoid, Master Of Reality, Vol.4, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, Sabatoge, Technical Ecstasy, and Never Say Die! plus a bonus dvd with …

“She’s Like The Wind”
Performer: Patrick Swayze
When I first saw “Dirty Dancing”, I was in fifth or sixth grade and the movie had been out for over a decade by then. Being a kid, I couldn’t really appreciate the movie itself, but I did enjoy listening to all the songs …

One of my favorite albums, which I discovered by accident while watching the film Almost Famous, where one of the parts of the movie the lead character is to recommend the album and tell him that if he listens to Tommy in the light of the candles he will …

Oxford Comma is a song by Vampire Weekend which appears on their debut self-titled record. The song opens up with a very simple yet definitive rhythm before the vocals come in for the first verse. One thing about Oxford Comma is I find it incredibly hard to not enjoy …

Artist: Beyonce ft. Kelly Rowland, Michelle Williams, and Solange Knowles
Video: “Get Me Bodied”
Album: B-Day
Label: Columbia
Director: Beyonce and Anthony Mandler
“Get Me Bodied” has to be the most overblown, over-hyped, over-saturated, and simply over-the-top music videos that Beyonce has ever done. It’s literally so over the top that it is ridiculous …

Salty Dog is a song by Flogging Molly which appears on their album Swagger. The track starts off fairly quietly with just an acoustic guitar strumming a chord progression and then a fiddle playing a lead over it before the rest of the band comes in to double this …

I’m not a fan of action movies as a rule, but when my favorite actor, Patrick Swayze, made one (Black Dog), I had to go see it. Lo and behold, I actually loved the movie. I watch it more than I do at least half of the …

I received a “Lost Highway” cd by Bon Jovi for an early birthday present. I am a Bon Jovi fan from way back around when they first came out, I was in my teens.
I am aware this CD has been out since 2007, yet I have not got …

I have just bought the new Empire of the Sun album, after having heard their debut single, ‘Walking on a Dream’. Now, having listened to the whole album a few times I am even more hooked on their style and lyrics. I will try to give my impression …

This is the third CD by Taylor Swift. I have been listening to it on repeat for the last three weeks. I have fallen in love with it, and there are plenty of reasons why.
First and foremost, Taylor has proved that she is not just someone who will …

Evil is a song by Andrew Jackson Jihad which appears on their album Can’t Maintain. The track opens up with a galloping-like guitar strumming pattern before the vocals pretty much immediately join in with a simple melody and a characteristic delivery. In the background of this track appears to …

Falling Down is a track by Muse which appears on their first record, Showbiz. I recently reviewed a few tracks from this album today such as Sober and Unintended, compared with these two, Falling Down is far more similar to Unintended in the sense that it’s an extremely melodic …

“The Body Rock” appears off of Busta Rhymes album When Disaster Strikes. It is the 17th track off of the absolute stellar album, often criticized as being his best. This is kind of crazy considering that there are 19 tracks all together. It’s nearly impossible to release such a …

The Offspring is an alternative punk rock band and is one of my favorite bands in general. This is also one of my favorite albums from the band as well and it has some of my favorite songs from them. I think this album is pretty solid around.
The first track …

Overview —“ Longview, the first music video ever released by Green Day comes from their third album, Dookie. One of Green Day’s better known songs of their career, the song and video focus on a teenager having absolutely nothing to do and being bored to the point of insanity. …

Don’t Ease Me In is a song by The Grateful Dead which appears on their record Go To Heaven. The track starts off with a very upbeat sounding bit before the vocals of the track come in which only reinforce this feel to be honest. Although I’m not a …

Beyonce on Ellen is an episode on Ellen that I will always remember and love. Ellen is such a sweetie and she knows just the right amount of dosage of questions to ask. And as I have suspected all along, Beyonce is a woman of such grace and …